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TheCoon

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Registered: 2016-05-10

Posts: 42

Boot specific partition after X failed dm-crypt passphrase attempts

Hi,

My current setup is a dual-boot of Windows 8.1 and Arch Linux, both residing on the same SSD, in which the Arch partition is encrypted (dm-crypt).
So sda1-sda7 are all part of the Windows environment, and sda8 is the Arch partition, which was installed after Windows.
sda2 is the boot partition, which they both share. The default is to boot Arch (via systemd-boot) which means arriving at the passphrase prompt, unless I hold down [space] during boot and then I can choose to boot the Windows partition.
My setup is working fine and all is well (apart from a few issues I'm working out over time).

Is there a way in which I can specify that after 2 failed attempts at the dm-crypt passphrase prompt, the system will boot the Windows partition?

Thanks for any help.

Last edited by TheCoon (2016-05-21 10:56:13)